NSOperation on the iPhone

Question

I\'ve been looking for some concrete scenarios for when NSOperation on the iPhone is an ideal tool to use in an application. To my understanding, this is a wrap

Answer 1

In a word: NSOperationQueue

NSOperationQueue is thread safe (you can add operations to it from different threads without the need for locks) and enables you to chain NSOp objects together.

My Flickr iPhone app, Reflections, uses NSOperation and NSOperationQueue extensively to manage downloading images and XML.

Caveat: Make sure you read, re-read, and understand what the docs mean when they talk about 'concurrency'.